“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. The entire draft opinion can be read below:
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In Alito's draft opinion, he mentions the fact that the Constitution, American law, and common law is never referenced as a Right in the Roe v. Wade decision.
The U.S. Constitution is based upon common law, which in turn is based on the natural law. From St. Thomas Aquinas work, he understood Christianity is based on natural law or God's law.
There is an early Christian book that was very prevalent in its usage. It is called the 'Didache'. In it clearly says abortion is murder. Chapter II, states--
Now the second commandment of teaching is this:
Notice that it commands us not to permit abortion.
The genuineness of the the Didache can hardly be doubted. It was cited by Clement of Alexandria in his "First Stroma" by Eusebius, who speaks of it in his "History Eccl.", 3:25; and by Athanasius in his 39th "Festal Epistle". Though mentioned in these Apocryphal books of the New Testament, the Didache had not , since the time of Nicephorus in the 9th century AD, been known or quoted. It was found in the library of the Holy Sepulcher at Istanbul (Constantinople) in 1873. All chronological evidence indicates the Didache was compiled at a date as early as 70 AD, while most critics place it about 80-90 AD. This would mean it is as old or older than the Book of Revelations and the Letters of the Apostle John.
St. Thomas Aquinas understood the natural law as -- “[E]very human law has just so much of the nature of law as is derived from the law of nature. But if in any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of law"1 ”, “Summa Theologica”, I-II,, Question xciv.
For anyone seeking better understanding, the Didache is a valuable supplement to the Bible. IMHO, it's a complete 'head-scratcher' why it isn't part of the Bible.
Indeed, Alito well chronicled American and Western (Christian) history of how abortion had always been considered criminal. He condemned the Roe Court for not only ignoring this easily discovered history, but in 2 cases blatantly accepting as legitimate, 2 "academic" publications attacking the motives of Coke and Blackstone, publications which were later utterly exposed for having fabricated said fallacies to support the pro abortion views of their writer.... the irony right?
...nice background, thank you for sharing....
You're very welcome. I believe there is a great need for understanding what St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 -1274 AD) expounded on. If any one, he is the model teacher of Natural Law as it pertains to mankind. All our laws of the past are based directly or indirectly on the Laws of Nature. These are the laws of life and survival. As Aquinas said, at any time human law deflects from the Law of Nature, it is a perversion of law. We are increasingly seeing this occur.
Absolutely....